Flight to Canada - Couverture souple

Reed, Ishmael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0689707339 ISBN 13 : 9780689707339

Editeur : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1989

Synopsis

Book by Ishmael Reed

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave’s-eye view of the Civil War.

Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied with leaving slavery halfway, one of the trio has vowed to go the whole distance to Canada; his master, Arthur Swille, determined to recover his property, pursues, hot on Raven Quickskill’s trail.

With myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high comedy as he parodies the fugitive slave narrative: the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet; Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of “Hello Dolly”; the plantation mistress lies in bed watching the Beecher Hour on TV. Flight to Canada’s preposterous episodes leap out from the pages of history to reveal a keen sense of America past and present.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ishmael Reed grew up in working-class neighborhoods in Buffalo, New York. He attended Buffalo public schools and the University of Buffalo. As well as being a novelist, poet, and essayist, he is a songwriter, television producer, publisher, magazine editor, playwright, and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation and There City Cinema, both located in Northern California. He lives in Oakland, California. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0689707339
• ISBN 13: 9780689707339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 179
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible